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In Hebrew, the Dead Sea is, meaning " sea of salt " ( Genesis 14: 3 ).
In prose sometimes the term (, " sea of death ") is used, due to the scarcity of aquatic life there.
In Arabic the Dead Sea is called (" the Dead Sea "), or less commonly (, " the Sea of Lot ").
Another historic name in Arabic was the " Sea of Zoʼar ", after a nearby town in biblical times.
The Greeks called it Lake Asphaltites ( Attic Greek,, " the Asphaltite sea ").
The Bible also refers to it as (, " the Eastern sea ") and (, " Sea of the Arabah ").
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